What is "unlace"

Usage examples of "unlace".

Sin unlaced the sleeves of his aketon as he headed toward the washstand.

Still others lolled at ease, their surcoats unlaced, passing the dregs of broached spirits between them.

She unlaced herself, took off her stays and her chemise, and told me to be quick and put on the clean one, but I was not speedy enough, being too much engaged by all I could see.

I was alarmed, but her mother, who had become accustomed to see her thus, sent for the surgeon, and her sister unlaced her.

I unlaced her corset, and in the twinkling of an eye I had before me such a siren as one sees on the canvas of Correggio.

This made them gayer than ever, for they had not noticed that their unlaced bodices and short petticoats let me see almost everything.

I claimed the right of regaining it myself, and she had to unlace her bodice to let me do so.

While she still had the firelight, Dallandra set up her own lean-to, divided her blankets twixt herself and Niffa, and unlaced her pair of saddle-bags to make two pillows.

Empty scabbards hung at his belt, and his shirt was unlaced, I saw him pull it off and sling it across his shoulder.

He unlaced the bodice of her chemise and slid his hands inside to cup her breasts, then her shoulders.

He slipped off his gown, his doublet, unlaced his shirt, removing each garment with deliberate care, laying them over a stool beneath the window.

He unlaced the flap as others of their tentmates stirred, and he peered out at the other tents through the reddened, dust-choked air.

He went to that tent, and shouted outside it until, within, someone unlaced the flap.

He found the water bucket and drank deep, then realized the shouting continued: swiftly, he drew on his buckskins and unlaced the lodge flap.

Deliberately, I unlaced my shirt and pulled it back, leaving my breasts bare.